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TRIGGERnometry

Will We Have a Rapid Recovery?

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mike Driver (@mdvex) is a serial entrepreneur and now the Chairman of Convex Capital, helping to sell over £1.5bn worth of owner-managed businesses. He is also a regular contributor to Kilkenomics, a Festival of Comedy and Economics which takes place in Kilkenny in Ireland every year.

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0

Hello and

0:05.0

this is a show for instance kissing

0:10.0

this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

0:14.3

Our brilliant and returning guests this week is Mike Driver.

0:18.0

You may remember we did an interview with him sometime ago.

0:20.6

He's a serial entrepreneur all-round good guy and someone who has a lot of

0:24.2

very counterintuitive ideas so Mike Driver welcome back to trigonometry I'm delighted to be back

0:28.8

thanks for having me again he caught him in too bad the first time no it was great

0:32.2

it was great the first time and it's good to have you back and the one of the

0:35.4

reasons we wanted to have you back actually is you and I were chatting on the

0:38.1

phone the other day and you were just talking about the situation that we're in now with the lockdown, the government's

0:44.8

response to it and you were saying there's lots of things that we could be doing that we're not

0:49.6

doing, there's lots of things that we are doing that we ought not to be doing.

0:53.2

So what is your kind of outside the take on everything?

0:57.7

What stands out for you in the current situation?

1:01.4

Well, I mean, I think in terms of good news, some of the stats that are coming through at the moment, things are starting to get better.

1:09.0

The rate of infection and the rate of fatality is as horrible as it is is does seem to be starting to decline around the world so

1:16.8

So I think I think it's it's perhaps less bad than it was

1:21.8

A ringing endorsement of the current situation.

1:24.1

But so I guess I guess you know we're in in lockdown and the debate about that is largely irrelevant I think

1:36.3

you know we are where we are I guess do you think it was the right decision to go into lockdown?

1:44.0

I mean I'm glad I didn't have to make it. I think as the as the captain on the bridge

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